1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Xhosa Language
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Ngiyabonga
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
unjani
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Ngiyacela
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Uxolo
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
12.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
16.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Zulu people
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
urban Zulu
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology